Stomping on floors in an apartment can often lead to a fist fight or a cop call.

But for Austin musician Bill Pucci, it led to a new band, Sour Bridges.

The “browngrass” band returns to Amarillo for a 10 p.m. Friday show at Golden Light Cantina, 2906 S.W. Sixth Ave.

Pucci and his brother Matt had moved from Pennsylvania to Austin more than four years ago and found themselves in an apartment complex that was home to several other musicians.

“We were stomping on the floor ... and (Jack Bridges,) wound up coming upstairs to check us out,” Pucci said.

Soon, they added drummer Dalton Chamblee, and Bridges introduced Amarillo native Kat Wilkes to the rest of the group.

“Kat has really put the finishing touches on what we were trying to do,” Pucci said. “She’s our secret weapon, I think. When that fiddle solo comes in, she knows how to rip it.

“She was the finishing touch of what we were looking for as a band and as a sound,” Pucci said.

Chamblee, meanwhile, coined the term the band uses to describe its version of fast-paced, gritty bluegrass music.

“We were thinking it was important to have a definition of your style of music and were fooling around with other names like ‘metalgrass,’” Pucci said.

“Browngrass,” he said, “fits with what we’re doing. It’s a little more upbeat and dirty kind of style.”

The band, though, has great respect for traditional bluegrass, he said.

“Simple writing and simple music structure is the foundation of what our stuff it,” Pucci said. “For me, personally, and I’ve talked with the guys about this, (simplicity) is how the traditional songs were written.

“We’re keeping it simple, and people like it. There’s a hook to it, and that seems to get people dancing,” he said.

That’s a key part of the band’s live show — dancing from both audience members and the band itself. Their February debut at Golden Light had members jamming on tabletops to close out the show.

“We have a lot of energy,” Pucci said. “We take pride in taking a place that isn’t that way and turning it around and getting people moving.”